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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

F. M. MOTT.

PLOW.

No. 311,511. 1 Patented Feb; 3, 1885.

WITNESSES: INVE TOR;

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

F. M. MOTT'.

PLOW.

Patented Feb. 3,1885.

WITNESSES To all whom it may concern/.-

nirren States FRANK MAY MOTT, OF

PLG.

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GREELEY, COLOR ADO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,511, dated February 3, 1885.

Applicatitn filed June Be it known that I, FRANK M. Morr, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Greeley, in the county of \Veld and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side view of my improved plow. Fig. 2 is a similar view seen from the other side. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to reversible plows; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a plow provided with two plow-bodies pointing toward each other, provided with means for raising and lowering them, and having means for turning the draft from one end ofthe plowframe to the other, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a beam or longitudinal frame having a laterally-projecting wing, B, upon the middle of the side of the frame facing the furrow, and having a semicircular frame, 0, projecting laterally from the upper edge of the side facing the land, supported by a bracket, D. Two wheels, EE, arejonrnaled upon stubaxles F, projecting from the beam, and travel uponthe land, and a stub-axle, G, projects from the outer end of the wing upon the middle of the beam, and has a crank, H, turning with its inner perforated end upon it, the said crank having awheel, I, journaled upon its wrist pin. A lever, J, projects from the up per edge of this crank, and is provided with a spring-lock, K, which engages asegmental rack, L, upon the end of the wing, whereby the crank may be adjusted to any angle desired, raising or lowering the wheel. The ends of the beam form vertical recesses M, opening upon the land side of the beam, and a swinging-arm, N, is pivoted upon the middle of the upper side of the beam, resting with its hori- 6, 1884. (N0 model.)

zontal portion upon the upper side of the beam, and, while swinging upon the semicircular frame, while its ends are bent verti cally, adapted to fit into the recesses in the ends of the beam, and the lower end of the vertical portion 0 is bent outward, and has the tongue 1? and doubletree Q, attached to it. A foot-lever, R, is pivoted upon the up per side of the horizontal portion of the swinging arm, having its inner end reaching in front of the seat S of the driver, which is secured upon the inner end of the swinging arm, and the outer end of the foot lever, which is weighted, fits into notches T in the upper edges of the outer sidesof the recesses in the ends of the beam, holding the swinging arm in place when swung to either end of the beam, the end of the lever playing between two upright arms, U, upon the outer end of the horizontal portion of the swinging arm. Two plates, V, forming vertical sliding bearings W upon their outer sides, are pivoted at their outer upper corners upon the furrow side of the beam, and slide with their inner sides upon set-screws X, projecting through slots Y in the plates, and the standards Z of the plows A slide in the vertical bearings upon the plates. The outer sides of the standards are provided with transverse projecting lips B, which form ways in which projecting lugs 0' upon the short bent arms D of two hand-levers, E, )roject and slide, which levers are pivoted upon laterally-preyecting pins or lugs F upon the pivoted plates, and have upwardly-projecting arms G, provided with spring-locks H, engaging segmental racks I, secured upon the outer ends of the pivotal lugs and. upon lugs J, projecting from the inner ends of the plates.

It will be seen that by tilting these levers outward or inward the plow standards and bodies may be raised or lowered, and that by adj usting. the slotted end of the pivoted plates upon the setscrews the pitch of the plows may be adjusted. The mold-boards of the plows face the single wheel, which is j ournaled upon the crank, and which is preferably of a larger diameter than the wheels running upon the land, the larger wheel running in the furrow guiding the plow; and it will be seen that by means of the lever upon the crank and the segmental rack the large wheel may be adjusted to suit any depth of furrow. When the plow arrives at the end of one furrow, the foot-lever is disengaged from its notch in the end which then is forward, and the team turned, which will swing the swinging arm and the seat around to face in the direction which formerly was to the rear of the seat, the swinging arm describing an angle of one hundred and eighty degrees, and the plow which formerly was in the rear of the seat, but now is in front of the seat, is raised, while the plow which was in front of the seat and is now in the rear of the seat was raised before turning the team. It will thus be seen that the lowered plow will be ready to throw a furrow into the furrow made by the plow now raised, thus avoiding all turning of the plowbeam and causing all the land to be thrown to one side, which order may be reversed at the next plowing. A revolving colter, K, is

journaled in the lower end of a bracket, L,

which is pivoted at its upper end at the middle of the beam in the lower end of a slotted casting, M, sliding with its slot upon a set-screw, N, secured in the beam, the said colter acting or swinging as a caster, so as to precede both plows in their turn.

Upon hill-sides this plow will act in the same manner as a turn-wrest plow, throwing the furrow to the same side.

Having thus described my invention,l claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. The combination, in a reversible plow, of a beam mounted upon wheels, having two vertical recesses near its ends, having notches in the upper edges of the outer sides of the recesses, and having a semicircular frame projecting laterally from the middle of its side, a swinging arm pivoted at its inner end upon the middle of the upper side of the beam, having its outer end bent downward, adapted to fitinto the recesses in the ends of the beam, and having the tongue attached to its end, and a foot-lever pivoted upon the upper side ofthe arm, playing with its outer weighted end between two upright lugs upon the arm, and fitting with its end in one of the notches, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

2. In a reversible plow, the combination of a beam having a semicircular frame projecting laterally from the upper edge of one side, at the middle of the same, having a laterallyprojecting wing upon its other side, and having wheels journaled upon stub-axles upon the same side as the frame, a swinging arm pivoted at the center of the upper side of the beam, having the tongue attached to itsouter end, and having means for securing it at the ends of the beam, and a crank hinged upon the end ofthe wing upon the beam, having a wheel journaled upon its wrist-pin, andhaving means for raising or lowering it, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

3. In a reversible plow, the combination of the beam having wheels j ournaled upon stubaXles upon its land side, having vertical recesses near the ends of its land side, having a semicircular frame projecting laterally from the middle of the upper edge of its land side, and having a wing projecting laterally from the middle of its furrow side, a swinging arm pivoted upon the center of the upper side of the beam, having the tongue attached to its outer end. and having a lever pivoted upon its upper side, adapted to engage ainotch in each end of the beam, the plows sliding with their standards in bearings upon the sides of the beam, and having means for raising and lowering them, the caster-colter, the crank hinged upon the end of the wing upon the beam, and having the hand-leverhaving means for adjusting .the same, and the wheeljourn'aled upon the wrist-pin of the crank, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

4. In a plow, the combination of the beam, a plate pivoted at one corner upon a bolt and sliding with a slot at its other edge upon abolt or screw, forming vertical bearings upon its outer side, and having laterally-projecting lugs, as described, a plow-standard slidingin the bearings and having transverse ways upon its outer side, a segmental rack secured upon the outer ends of the lugs upon the pivoted plate, and a lever having its short arm bent and provided with an inwardlyprojecting pin sliding in the ways upon the standard, and provided upon its long arm or handle with a spring-lock engaging the segmental rack, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK MAY MOTT.

- Witnesses:

MARY RAYMOND, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER MORLEY. 

